"This next song is about when somebody gets scared when someone goes too deep and they kind of back off and it's like you've been ghosted."
The rise of the surf instructor will certainly be one of 2024’s defining marks as this year of the wood dragon draws to a close. Yes, it is wild to think we have less than thirty days until the beginning of 2025, which will be filled with its very own storylines, but we are not there yet and so back to surf instructors we go.
Folk continued the learn-to-surf craze, first popularized in 2020, hiring many and varied surf instructors across the globe, industry legends like Jamie O’Brien got into the game, launching eponymous learn-to-surf schools and famous chanteuses fell head over heels in love with hunky instructors.
Hot for teacher.
But all daisies and tulips?
Maybe not, according to English singer/songwriter Ellie Goulding. The 37-year-old was recently playing a show in Austria when she declared, “This next song is about when somebody gets scared when someone goes too deep and they kind of back off and it’s like you’ve been ghosted. Has anyone been ghosted? Who has been ghosted? What the [expletive]. Sorry for the kids! I’m so sorry, What the duck, which is what I say around my child. What the ducking duck. So this song is more relevant than ever.”
Attention immediately turned to the Costa Rican surf instructor hunk Armando Perez who had been linked to Goulding for months.
It must also be noted that Perez taught surfing to Shakira as well.
Anyhow, the toothsome twenty-something apparently stopped returning texts and calls though still appears to be open for business, as it were. His website reading:
Hello my name is Armando and I have been surfing since I was a child. The waves of Playa Hermosa are my home and I am a very good host. As a surf instructor I will lead you step by step to the line-up and guarantee you at least one “wave of the day”. Together we read the sea until you understand it for yourself.
Back to the question at hand, though, has anyone, here, been ghosted?
Who has been ghosted?
Anyone?
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Won’t be in the job long that bloke being way behind the point of entry. Bunk goes lunk.
Shakira your hips!
Lie, they do not.
Hello armando my name is cuntox and I’ll bring you pain in a step by step method guaranteeing you never surf instruct again.
Yours sincerely Cuntox
bitch is late-skating with my fries and double cheesese burger! seven-op large!
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cavvy the ghostest of all time…
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Caspar the Friendly Ghost – twinny.
https://hydrodynamica.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/the-friendly-ghost/
Funny you should mention that because my son is named Shakira Bathymetry Cowabunga the Third.
Then Shakira Slater it is.
You. By Ashton Goggons
There’s this pub, or ‘hotel’ as the call them, here in Australia (the law says they have to supply rooms for drunks etc) on The Rocks in Sydney. Famous spot. Colonial blah blah.
Anyway this pub, The Lord Nelson. Very old place. Back in the ’70s I think it was, the owner had a dog. He loved that dog. All the patrons did too. Can’t remember it’s name. Lovely creature by all accounts.
One day the dog was running around as usual and got hit by a passing ute. Tragic. Everyone was gutted. Very sad day for the community.
But a few years later just after closing time on a Dark-n-Stormy Night™, the dog reappeared, without a tail. Out of the gloom of the harbour light, this dog, a ghost dog, appeared.
You see the owner had loved the dog so much he’d had it’s tail removed from the battered corpse and had it preserved and put in a frame over the bar.
But there it was, this ghost dog, insistantly wagging it’s arse at the owner and barking, turning in circles. After a while the pub owner, once recovered from his shock realised what the dog wanted. He looked at the frame, and then at his watch and shook his head.
He said “Ah look mate, I love you to bits. We’ve all missed you heaps. But it’s 10:30 and I can’t legally retail spirits.”
bravo
“The Lord Then Gave Us Thy Forth”
attenbourgrough v porsche rossi? need cameras~cavemen
dss&s can book that room for you~the roadhouse backroom!
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This! This is the obscurity we stay for. British pop star playing a gig in Austria maybe referencing a Costa Rican surf instructor.
How good is life!!
Wiggs ghosted us all!
Xox
that cunt…
Full cunt hey ☺️
Xox
I miss him.
Parking hell, theres no parking parking!
Surf instructors in the new world of surfing are going to be the new Beatles. Changing perceptions of the world that used to be.
The Surfing Instructors
great name for a boy band
Kellys unnamed baby boo can be the lead singer. I wish they all could be unnamed California girls.
I was getting ghosted long before ghosting was even a thing.
by definition though, there cannot be more than one wave of the day per day.
Everyone’s definition of wave of the day would be somewhat different, so you and your buddy could still get the wave of the day….unless Jamie’s there, then you’ll get snaked out of your wave of the day and your buddy too.
in the Islands, sure. but he’s getting roasted worse than Joan of Arc if he starts back paddling folks in my neck of the woods
“I’m a lumberjack…”
etc.
Joan of Arc was also a lumberjack? A girl after me own heart, to be certain.
That had me too but then I got to thinking about Owen Wright and Cloudbreak.
that’s merely Wright of the day though, the waves notwithstanding.